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Destroyed home in Kherson region False flag? Russia says Ukraine plans to detonate a ‘dirty bomb’ There are moments when this war feels utterly mindless. Witnessing the visible trauma in the village of Kreshchenivka is one of those instances. irannews.ru Turkey accuses US of ‘bullying’ Saudi Arabia over OPEC+ oil cuts In July it was reported that Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, was going to make its algorithm more similar to TikTok's, rather than prioritising content from accounts that individuals were already following. It was at this time - during a trade war between China and the EU over textile quotas - that I got a rare invitation to interview the commerce minister. Such interviews with top Chinese officials were excruciatingly dull, but this was the opposite. There are moments when this war feels utterly mindless. Witnessing the visible trauma in the village of Kreshchenivka is one of those instances. The truth is Xi's path to power was far from inevitable. And it's defined as much by his ambition as it is by the party's failure to prevent what they did not want - a repeat of Mao's disastrous one-man rule. In 1989 - as the Soviet Union was breaking up - China's hopes for change were crushed by tanks and automatic gunfire.